Fedora 6 install problems

[Ivan Kronkvist]

I bought a new PC (Dell Dimension w/ Pentium D) and
installed Fedora 6 on it. All went fine and after the
install the system was rebooted and I was able to log
on. I then did shutdown and when I tried to boot up
the next day, the bootup process hung after enabling
disk quotas. I searched the archive and found a
similar post that suggested that the graphics wasn't
working. I rebooted with linux rescue, changed the
runlevel to 3 in inittab, and now I saw a stack trace
and a Segmentation Fault for the line in rc.sysinit
that does a rm -rf on a bunch of things in /tmp. 

I have tried to reinstall, but my original DVD didn't
work, the install got hung while resolving
dependencies of the packets I want to install. I have
downloaded Fedora 6 another 4 times and burned new
DVDs, but the installation process complains on each
of them that the DVD image is broken when I test the
DVD before starting to install. (the original DVD
passed before my initial install, but since has the
same problem when I test it.) If I try to install from
any of these DVDs, the install still hangs when
resolving packages.

I don't know if there is a hardware problem. It seems
hard to imagine since it is a brand new PC and before
I even started install linux, I booted up with the
Windows XP that it came with and everything appeared
to be fine. However, trying to reinstall Windows XP
from the DVD I got in the purchase also fails. It
somehow hangs while booting from the DVD giving me a
blank screen.

Any help or hints are welcome. I have installed RedHat
on numerous PC's some years ago and never had any
problems at all.

Thanks,
Ivan



 
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